Imagining TR: Commemorations and Representations of Theodore Roosevelt in Twentieth-Century America

• Main Author: Heth, Jennifer Dawn
• Other Authors: Anderson, Terry H, Vaught, David, Seipp, Adam R, Caffey, Stephen M
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Theodore Roosevelt; memory; commemoration; monuments; national identity; masculinity; Theodore; Roosevelt Island; Minot
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/153983

By examining monuments and memorials dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt in the twentieth century, this dissertation exposes the commemorators’ conscious and unconscious perceptions of masculinity and American identity visible in commemorative statuary. The monuments’ patrons and artists adapted the nat...